
Hi, Am Montag, den 20.04.2015, 16:29 +0200 schrieb Sven Panne:
2015-04-19 9:44 GMT+02:00 Joachim Breitner
: [...] So my question to the general audience: Is such branchless code really better than the current, branching code? Can someone provide us with an example that shows that it is better? Do I need to produce different branchless assembly? [...]
Just a few war stories regarding this from the trenches (= Chrome's JavaScript JIT):
thanks a lot. The conclusion I draw from your mail, at last for our case, is: Don’t bother (and keep the compiler code simple). Is that a correct reading? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org